Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Jules Verne More Quotes by Jules Verne More Quotes From Jules Verne Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees! Jules Verne elephants sound tree How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other! Jules Verne buried may heaven An Englishman does not joke about such an important matter as a bet. Jules Verne important matter doe I would have bartered a diamond mine for a glass of pure spring water! Jules Verne glasses spring water My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends. Jules Verne house may heaven Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important. Jules Verne saws depth important An English criminal, you know is always better concealed in London than anywhere else. Jules Verne concealed criminals london What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known! Jules Verne captains might book It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions. Jules Verne bags world travel Man is never perfect nor contented. Jules Verne perfect men Hunger, prolonged, is temporary madness! The brain is at work without its required food, and the most fantastic notions fill the mind. Hitherto I had never known what hunger really meant. I was likely to understand it now. Jules Verne madness mind brain In the memory of the dead all chronological differences are effaced. Jules Verne differences memories What one man can think, another man can do. Jules Verne can-do men thinking During the War of the Rebellion, a new and influential club was established in the city of Baltimore in the State of Maryland Jules Verne clubs cities war A cow peacefully grazing fifty yards away received one of the bullets in her back. She had nothing to do with the quarrel all the same. Jules Verne yards bullets fifty I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new Jules Verne useless men mean However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4,500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss. Jules Verne sea feet thinking As for Phileas Fogg, it seemed just as if the typhoon were a part of his programme Jules Verne typhoons programmes ifs Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray. Jules Verne ready fortune way One's native land!?there should one live! there die! Jules Verne dies land should
